His article is here: One Laptop per Child Doesn’t Change the World. A line from that article:
Does anyone but me see this as an insulting “let them eat cake” sort of message to the world’s poor?
I hate to admit this, since Christmas is supposed to be the one true feel-good time of year, but I think he’s got a point. I watched what happened when they gave notebooks to our local high school kids. One year later, they have a pile of useless hardware with a large percentage “missing”. End of “experiment”. And these kids could read and write. Well, most could pass a TAKS test anyway. Is OLPC just another way to spell WOFTAM?
